This maybe true in versions new than MythTV 0.25 and on systems that use a locale of de_DE or ch_DE but for user with other locales such as us_EN it may not work. You can find more information on [[XMLTV_CH#tv_grab_ch_search|how to make it work here.]]

=== United Kingdom ===

=== United Kingdom ===

Revision as of 09:33, 9 April 2013

Note: Not all grabbers on this page are XMLTV compliant. Only fully compliant grabbers are supported by MythTV and we advise against the use of the rest.

If you know a grabber listed here does not conform entirely to both the xmltv grabber specifications (XMLTV grabber spec) and XMLTV xml format (XMLTV Format) then please mark it as unsupported. If in doubt XMLTV provide a script to validate a grabber (XMLTV Validator)

The purpose of this page is to cover specific issues that aren't necessarily covered in the official documentation.

Warning: Please note that Shepherd is completely unsupported by the MythTV project. It is not an XMLTV compliant grabber and operates directly on your database. It does not allow MythTV to schedule listings updates like supported grabbers. This will only change if you lobby the developers to change their stance.

Brazil

There are a working grabber, tv_grab_br_net a perl scripts (or any other Linux native solutions) for Brazilian TV programming. This grabber get data from Net [1] cable TV. No open to air TV on this source, just paid tv programme. It is detected by mythtvsetup and you are prompted (on background windows) to make your choice about your city, line-up and channels. It provide both, simple and complete description for programs.

Other functional alternative is to use TVxb, which isn't open source or even Linux, but works well with wine (at least as far as version 1.0085).

TVxb is configurable for different countries via ini-files. Check the following page for Brazilian templates. As of today, there are some for NET (PR), and others for TVA as well.

Five written in Python (tdc.dk, tv-guiden.dk, ahot.dk, jubii.dk, ontv.dk).

The group also maintains the following:

A merger written in Python to combine XMLTV information from multiple sources, to obtain the highest possible quality (merge end time of last show from tdc.dk with episode numbers from tv2.dk and long descriptions from tv-guiden.dk etc.).

A "combined" grabber, which configures each of the other grabbers and runs them in parallel and then merge the output. That combined grabber does also support the swedish grabber (swedb).

The mailing list is used to inform users when there are updates or problems with the current grabbers.

Finland

The grabbers in the official XMLTV distribution work correctly.

France

The grabber in the upcoming XMLTV release works correctly. More information is available on [2].

Germany/Austria

epgData offers data on a subscription basis, the grabber from the main xmltv distribution works.

Some channels are available via Egon Zappt in the upcoming release of xmltv.

TV Movie can not give out their data without additional license, see Ben Bucksch's log.

Greece

Try this link for Nova Greece: http://sgcpm.com/epg/devilcosta.gz, for example using mythfilldatabase. (Be aware that its just a dump of DVB-EIT using the service_id as channel_id which is not proper xmltv. Please consider writing a proper grabber for the file so it can be configured via the GUI or simply provide a proper guide feed with tools like NonameTV.)

India

The grabber for What's-On-India has been added to the official XMLTV distribution.

Since TVB web site is changed, the program need to be updated. (My php skill is poor, so there are error when running, however it also can get schedule from TVB web site), I also change the program name called 'xmltvhk.php'. Please download it from google.

Slovakia

South Africa

Spain

Sweden

The grabber in the official XMLTV distribution works correctly. More information is available on http://tv.swedb.se/.

Switzerland

The grabber in the official XMLTV distribution works correctly.

This maybe true in versions new than MythTV 0.25 and on systems that use a locale of de_DE or ch_DE but for user with other locales such as us_EN it may not work. You can find more information on how to make it work here.